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#2. To: sneakypete (#1) Nice! Chasing Nuts Around the Interweb for Years #3. To: Biff Tannen (#2) Some people really do have too much time on their hands,don't they? I feel sorry for those poor dogs. They are the ones that did all the work.
#4. To: sneakypete (#3) I've had a couple border collies. They love doing that. My current one even herds children if they run away from the group of people they're with. The first time she did it I thought she was attacking the kid, she was snarling and snapping her teeth and whining like a maniac but never touched the kid. Just herded her right back to mom. Chasing Nuts Around the Interweb for Years #5. To: Biff Tannen (#4) 've had a couple border collies. They love doing that. One of my earliest memories is of a standard Collie owned by my parents that used to babysit me out in the yard when I was still in diapers. If I crawled towards the sidewalk and the street,she would pick me up by my diapers and take me back to the center of the yard. I now suspect I mostly did it to play with her,and truth to tell,she probably thought it was playing,too. We were both doing what we needed to do. My other earliest memory was of sitting inside a cardboard box (apparently it was my play pen) on the kitchen floor,and having a big rat run right past me and my father to jump up from the kitchen table and try and stomp him before he got away. Which scared the hell out of me. I liked the dog memory better,
#6. To: sneakypete (#5) lol, i'd like the collie memory better too! This week I'm doggy-sitting a King Doberman. This things weighs at least a hundred pounds. It's huge but luckily he's a big suckhole and does what he's told. If he didn't want to do it there's no way I would try making him. I keep thinking he's going to turn into a killer and rip my throat out. Chasing Nuts Around the Interweb for Years #7. To: Biff Tannen (#6) This week I'm doggy-sitting a King Doberman. This things weighs at least a hundred pounds. It's huge but luckily he's a big suckhole and does what he's told. If he didn't want to do it there's no way I would try making him. I keep thinking he's going to turn into a killer and rip my throat out. They are just dogs,and respond like all dogs. Once you are around him a little while you will forget what he is. I once promised to feed and water two adult dobies and a St.Bernard that belonged to a friend who was going to be out of town for a couple of weeks. The dogs were all in a pen in his back yard,and they all had their own dog houses. All I had to do was stand on a stool to feed their feed trough from the outside,and use a water hose to fill the water trough. The dogs sorta knew me because I had been around,but he didn't allow anyone to pet them or get too friendly because he used them to guard construction sites sometimes. Anyhow,I had done this for a few days when the two dobies tied up fighting at the food trough. I went in the pen and kicked them apart,and screamed at them and made them go to separate sides of the pen. I was already out of the pen and had the door closed before it even occurred to me that I had just got between two semi-strange adult male doberman guard dogs that were fighting. Sometimes I'm not very clever.
#8. To: sneakypete (#7) lol. i got up in the night and when i went back to bed he was in my place. i didn't know what to do to get him out, i wasn't going to grab him and drag him out that's for sure. i stood in the hallway wondering what the fuck to do but he got out to come and see what i was doing. then i ran past him and got back in. Chasing Nuts Around the Interweb for Years #9. To: Biff Tannen (#6) This week I'm doggy-sitting a King Doberman. BTW,a Dobie is a serious piece of work if he thinks you are threatening his "family",but under normal circumstances they are the nicest dogs in the world. A few years after the incident above,I was living in Denver and an adult female Dobie just showed up as a stray. I took her in and fed her,and saw no ads in the paper for a lost dog,and the spca's had no reports of anybody looking for her,so I kept her. She was absolutely the nicest and sweetest dog I have ever owned in my life. She thought that anything smaller than her was a puppy,and I have seen her go up to a strange puppy and lay down and roll over in a submissive act to show she wasn't dangerous. She was also absolutely nuts about kids,and any time she got out of the yard all I had to do to find her was find a bunch of kids playing. Hell,I got my favorite cat of all time because of her. The cat just followed her home one day. It took me over a year before I could touch that cat without getting scratched,and she would come in the house at night and do figure 8's around the dobies legs while the dog licked her. When the cat had kittens,the dobie would cry every time she did,and she helped the cat wash them clean. She would even babysit the kittens when the cat was out in the yard. They were in a box in the bedroom,but the dog would want to be with me in the living room,so she would go in there and bring them out to the living room one at a time until they were all there,and then she laid down on the floor and used her paw to pull them up to her stomach. Her mouth was so big and they were so little she couldn't pick them up by the nape of the neck,so she would just put the whole kitten in her mouth with the head sticking out. I saw her playing with them after their eyes got open,and one would jump up and grab her around the knee,and she would fall over just like she was tackled. She would even lay on her side and try to "box" with them,but that didn't work out real well for the kittens. They would be knocked across the floor. Having said that,it was NOT a good idea to raise your voice to me when she was around. I had the idiot drunken woman that lived in the apartment behind me come in the yard one day and start screaming at me when I went out to take the dog for a walk,and then she had the poor judgement to start waving her finger in my face. The dobie lunged for her throat,and I could hear her jaws click together as I snatched back on the choker chain. The dogs eyes had actually turned red. I had a car at the time that had doors that wouldn't lock,and I lived in a Mexican neighborhood. One so bad off-duty armed cops walked the aisle at the Safeway store,and there were barricades right outside the doors to keep people from stealing the carts. Almost any Friday night you went there,there would be people selling tv's out of the trunks of their cars. I used to take Natasha to the Safeway with me,and stop at a burger joint to buy a couple of cheeseburers before I went to the grocery store. With that bag of juicy cheesburgers sitting on the front seat of the car beside the dog,I knew there was zero danger of anybody getting inside the car while I was in the store. She wouldn't eat them until I told her it was ok,but she damn sure wasn't going to let anybody else eat them,either. She also loved to drink beer,and would get falling down drunk. She could almost always be found around the bucket under the beer kegs at parties,with her head stuck in it. I even saw her drink a bowl of white whiskey some friends of mine from Georgia brought me,but she generally wouldn't drink whiskey unless she was already drunk on beer. I used to go to the liquor store on the corner to get me a 5th and I'd get her a 6 pack of Coors at the same time and just open them all and pour them in a refrigerator crisper for her because she would drink one beer so fast you wouldn't even have time to set down and drink your own drink. The only problem with this is she loved to play rough when she was drunk,and I had to wear my leather jacket and gloves to play with her. The cat would make herself scarce when the dog started getting drunk. Also,I really do believe she could have won any hotdog eating contest in the country. It seems like every time I got invited to a party,they always told me to "make sure you bring Natasha". If she had been able to drive I'm not sure *I* would have always been invited. I loved that dog beyond all belief.
#10. To: Biff Tannen (#8) i stood in the hallway wondering what the fuck to do but he got out to come and see what i was doing. then i ran past him and got back in. LOL! I'll bet he was back there when you woke up in the morning,too.
#11. To: sneakypete (#9) Wow, that sounds like a cool dog, Pete. Dogs are pretty good once they are grown, if they behave. I can't stand the puppy stage at all. One other thing about this dobie I have for the week, I had to put my border collie somewhere else until its gone because the collie attacks it for being on its territory. That freakin collie doesn't let anything on its territory without a fight. It even chased off a bear once. The dobie could eat it in a couple of bites if it wanted to. Chasing Nuts Around the Interweb for Years #12. To: sneakypete (#10) It takes up most of the bed. I'll just wash all bedding once he's gone. lol Chasing Nuts Around the Interweb for Years #13. To: Biff Tannen (#11) I had to put my border collie somewhere else until its gone because the collie attacks it for being on its territory. Dogs are territorial. My dobie would go after anything bigger than her that came in the yard. Anything smaller than her she thought was a puppy,and would play with it. That freakin collie doesn't let anything on its territory without a fight. It even chased off a bear once. The dobie could eat it in a couple of bites if it wanted to Maybe,but collies are pretty tough dogs,too. Take a look at the jaws and teeth on that thing before you write him off. The breed was developed to protect sheep herds from wolfs.
#14. To: Biff Tannen (#12) It takes up most of the bed. I'll just wash all bedding once he's gone. lol You watch. You will be wanting a dobie of your own once he is gone. Want to see something interesting? Take him to a remote area or a park where you can let him run a little. Dobies seem so clumsy they might fall over when just walking around,but once they get those long legs moving it all falls into place,and they are graceful beyond belief once they hit their stride. They really do grow on you.
#15. To: sneakypete (#14) You will be wanting a dobie of your own once he is gone. That's what I'm afraid of. Chasing Nuts Around the Interweb for Years #16. To: sneakypete (#9) THAT is a cool story.
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